Congressman calls on Washington to stop military aid to Azerbaijan

Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, on Wednesday called on his House and Senate colleagues to cut all security assistance to Azerbaijan, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

His request comes in the wake of the continuing scandal surrounding Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s pardon and promotion of killer Ramil Safarov, a confessed axe-murderer who killed an Armenian officer while he slept during a 2004 NATO Partnership for Peace training exercise in Hungary. Read more…(373 words)